netdev - Re: Please pull 'adm8211' branch of wireless-2.6

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Message-Id: <20070915.215053.74746915.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sat, 15 Sep 2007 21:50:53 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	flamingice@...rmilk.net
Cc:	jeff@...zik.org, linville@...driver.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Please pull 'adm8211' branch of wireless-2.6

From: Michael Wu <flamingice@...rmilk.net>
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 00:47:40 -0400

> Huh? How does a driver use NAPI if it can't pass a struct net_device?

It is now managed by a struct napi_struct which you can embed into any
object you like.

NAPI is now totally disconnected from the network device structure.
This was necessary for proper support of multi-queue cards.

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